Demonstrates how self-confidence and right attitudes are necessary to good health.


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Producer: Coronet Instructional Films
Sponsor: N/A
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Social guidance; Health and hygiene; Teenagers

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: ERD - - October 1, 2006
Subject: A Fair Production
There are some good points brought out in this film, despite it being a bit too wordy. The actor who portrays the worried teenager does a good job, but the actress who does his mother is
amateurish.

Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - September 3, 2003
Subject: Attitudes and Health
Marv is all bummed out because he didn't make the first team in basketball. He comes home to find out his older sister has taken sick after being passed over for a promotion at work. The doctor emerges from her bedroom and gives Marv and his mother a stern lecture about bad attitudes and how they make people sick, a problem that he believes affects over half of his patients! He makes some reasonable points about how excessive worry can cause health problems, but he's so self-righteous and overgeneralizing about it that you start to wonder if he overlooks serious maladies in his patients by being so quick to diagnose "bad attitudes". Marv, though, takes his talk to heart and starts having a "better perspective" on not making the team, planning to practice to improve his skills so he can make it next time (when you see his laughably bad ball-handling skills, you know exactly why he didn't make it this time). This is one of the most annoyingly simplistic Coronet films ever, with little of the usual innocent charm that normally allows the movies to get by with their unbelievable premises. The one exception is Marv's motherÃÂÃÂthe actress who plays her gives a laughably bad performance, yet she is so convincing on the level of person as somebody's mother that you end up being charmed by her. Perhaps they hired her over from Centron. Marv would later develop a major attitude problem that would result in multiple personality disorder in the classic film How to Keep a Job.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ****.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - July 20, 2003
Subject: Interesting Medical breakthrough!
Marvin didn't make the first team in his high school basketball team. Why? H eas worrying too much about not making the team, which of course showed and therefore cost him the chance. This I understand, what makes this film so over the top is the doctor's astonishing claim that over half the cases he sees would have helped if they just have a better attitude!!! Have cancer? You need a better attitude! Got Pneumonia? Too bad you didnt have a positive attitude! The message IS there, just the delivery isn't.

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Demonstrates how self-confidence and right attitudes are necessary to good health. Reveals how attitudes toward seemingly unrelated happenings, such as failure to get a promotion, can prevent an individual from doing his best and even cause physical illness. For high school, college, and adult groups.





Ken Smith sez: This film tells the story of "Marvin Baker" -- "an average fellow from an average home in an average town" -- who learns that having an "attitude" can make him sick and a failure in life. Happily, by the end of the film, Marv has adopted a "better perspective" and makes the first team in basketball. Watch for the montage of people with bad attitudes, including a woman with giant shoulders and scary eyebrows, and a fat-faced man with a "tick."
Stock shots:
Doctor makes house visit; doctor in smock; nervous tic; hands on a keyboard; boy shoots basketball; headaches
BEHAVIOR HEALTH AND SAFETY SOCIAL GUIDANCE ATTITUDES CHILDREN HOMES HOUSES SCHOOLS BOYS GIRLS HYGIENE CLEANLINESS
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